Scientists Reveal The Massive Treasures Beneath Siberia’s Thawing Permafrost

November 9, 2023 264.2K views
Permafrost covers 95 percent of Yakutia, and as it thaws, it is attracting international researchers eager to study the remains of mammoth and other ancient specimens that the Earth is coughing up.

Whatever it is, it likely died more than 50,000 years ago.

Valery Plotnikov

This cave lion cub is probably the best-preserved Ice Age animal ever found.

The head of a steppe wolf found in the Siberian permafrost that was dated as being 32,000 years old.

Buildings in Yakutia are built on stilts dug deep into the permafrost

Sergei Fyodorov at the Mammoth Museum in Yakutsk.